If you don't have all the recipes in the craft book yet, then of course you can't open up the animal stalls' recipe pages.You do know that you have to first collect all the crafting recipes by digging around and collecting them when they drop from blocks.

I think what he is trying to explain is that he thinks that you can see the recipe for cow/chicken/sheep/pig houses if you tap their picture in the first section that everyone has when they start. Right?